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Massumi says the black and white soccer ball pattern was for satellite transmission, via Telstar. Made with Paper
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Massumi says the black and white soccer ball pattern was for satellite transmission, via Telstar. Made with Paper
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It was Tobey’s, now it’s mine…and hopefully next it will be a half-Hispanic, half-African American actor, Andrew Garfield (via orangemornings)
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Google will soon offer street view-esque tours of the White House, adding yet another feature to its arsenal of virtual tourist features. How long will it be before users can see all of the world’s most impressive landmarks from the comfort of their homes? Of course, it will never be the same as actually going…
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The science of taste and of cultural consumption begins with a transgression that is in no way aesthetic: it has to abolish the sacred frontier which makes legitimate culture a separate universe, in order to discover the intelligible relations which unite apparently incommensurable ‘choices’, such as preferences in music and food, painting and sport, literature…
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… tools only exist in relation to the interminglings they make possible or that make them possible. The stirrup entails a new man–horse symbiosis that at the same time entails new weapons and new instruments. Tools are inseparable from symbioses or amalgamations defining a Nature–Society machinic assemblage. They presuppose a social machine that selects them…
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… tools only exist in relation to the interminglings they make possible or that make them possible. The stirrup entails a new man–horse symbiosis that at the same time entails new weapons and new instruments. Tools are inseparable from symbioses or amalgamations defining a Nature–Society machinic assemblage. They presuppose a social machine that selects them…
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An acquaintance of mine, an artist and critic and now an administrator, told me of an assignment he gave to his first-year MFA students. He asked them to go to the library and seek out an art magazine from the month and year they were born, write down the names of 25 artists from the…
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Agility may be the single highest priority for workplaces now and in the future. Brian Green, Herman-Miller, from Coworking, Swarming, and The Agile Workplace (via stoweboyd) agility for the spaces to reconfigure, agility for the workgroups to recombine, agility for the minds to address novel challenges which require novel approaches
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This is the year things get weird. – Bryce Roberts, Web 2.0 Ends With Data Monopolies Bryce is referring to the profound changes in the technological infrastructure our culture sits on, as we start to create nearly unimaginable amounts of data — both personalized and anonymized — through the streams of our existence. The proximate cause…